December 24 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- First Negro hospital founded by whites chartered in Savannah, Georgia
- First radioactive isotope medicine is administered in Berkeley, California
- Huxley Takes LSDAuthor Aldous Huxley takes LSD for the first time
Born on this day
- Anthony Fauci1940 American immunologist (White House COVID-19 taskforce), born in Brooklyn, New York (85 years old)
- Johann Conrad AmmannSwiss physician, naturalist, and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons, born in Schaffhausen, Netherlands (d. 1811)
- Benjamin RushEarly American physician, writer, abolitionist, educator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in Byberry, Province of Pennsylvania, British America (d. 1813)
- George CrabbeEnglish poet (Everlasting Mercy), born in Aldeburgh, England (d. 1832)
- Anthony FauciAmerican physician, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Died on this day
- Hester JonasGerman nurse (born 1570)
- Johns HopkinsAmerican financier and philanthropist (founded Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University), dies at 78
- Joseph MuhlerAmerican biochemist and dentist (developed Crest - 1st fluoride toothpaste), dies at 73
- John M. GoldmanEnglish haematologist and oncologist (born 1938)
- Raúl MaderoArgentine soccer defender (5 caps; Estudiantes) and sports physician (Argentina national team), dies at 82